Creel-frame for warring-mills



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GREBL FRAME FOR WARPING MILLS.

Patented Apr. 13, 1886.

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FRANK II. PATRICK, OF SOUTH HADLEY FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

CREEL-FRAME FOR WARP|N G-lVllLLS.

BPEOIIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,684:, dated April 13, 1886.

Application filed December 26, 1885. Serial Nolsliflld. (No model.

therefor, the object being to provide for warping, beaming, and other similar machines requiring creels an improved frame on which the bobbins of warp yarn arc hung while the latter is unwound therefrom, and improved means for attaching the bobbin spindles or skewers to said frame, whereby said spindles, though connected by one end to said frame, are

- capable of having the free ends thereof swung laterally and vertically to allow said free ends to be lifted from theirbcarin gs and swung sidewise, so that any bobbin may be taken off from the frame or put on without disturbing the position of any other one.

In the drawings forming part of this specification,Figurc 1 illustrates in perspective view a portion of a creel-frame having bobbin-supporting devices applied thereto embodying my invention, several bobbins being shown hung on said frame inoperative positions, and one thereof being shown with the spindle on which it turns swung from one of its end bearings, as it is in practice, when a bobbin is to be put on or taken off from said spindlc. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the devices by which the bobbin-spindles are connected to the bars of the frame, showing aportion of a spindle attached to said doviccs. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the spindle-block shown in Fig. 2, showing in connection therewith the headed end of the spin dle.

In the drawings, A indicates parts of the top and bottom, and one end of a frame of rectangular form, constructed of wood or other suitable material, having a series of vertical spindle-bars, 5, fixed in said frame, which bars are arranged in pairs and in such relative po sitions to each other that the axes of the bobbin-spindles, which are hung horizontally on each pair of said bars, one above the other, as shown, are inclined to the line of the ends of the frame, in order that the yarn may be con veniently drawn clear of the bobbin-supporting devices. The bars I) are made preferably of metal, and may be either solid or made of tubing, and are provided with aserics of transverse perforations, 5, as shown, those of the rear line of tubes not being shown in the draw ings. The distance which separates the per forations in the harsh is governed by the dianr eter of the bobbins to be hung thereon.

In bobbin or creel frames for warping-mills as heretofore employed it is customary to hang the bobbin on a loose spindle, which is put through the bobbin, and the ends of the spindle are engaged in suitable upright supports while the yarn is drawn 0d from the bobbin, the later turning meanwhile.

In taking off an emptied bobbin from aloose spindle and replacing said bobbin with one full of yarn, or in taking off a bobbin for the purpose of finding and tying up a broken end, it is exceedinglyinconvenient to handle such aspindle and bobbin, for the former is easily and frequently dropped out of the bobbin by the operator, and it slips out of place when the latter is placing the bobbin with the spindle in it in place to run; but, by means of my improvements, as herein set forth, the aboveanentioned inconveniences are obviated, for the spindle is constantly connected with the supporting devices thereof, while one end thereof is movable to such a degree as is required to pcrmitthe bobbin to be placed thereon and removed.

The spindles or skewers c consist of any re quired number, more or less, only a suflicient number being shown in the drawings to illustrate the construction and arrangement in a creel, certain of said spindles being shown with bobbins c thereon. The spindles c are of the usual proper form to pass through the bobbin from end to end and allow the latter to be rotated thereon, and are provided with a head, (i, on one end, as shown in Fig. 3, and on the headed end of each spindle c is placed abloclr, '0, preferably of metal, although any other suitable material may be used. Said block 1; is perforated to let the spindle pass through it, and its rear side is countersunk to receive the head of the spindle, as shown. A metallic strap, 2, whose central portion is of circular form, has its two ends pivotally secured to the opposite ends of said block 1) by a suitable screw or pin, n, passing through each end of said strap into said bloclgwhereby the latter may swing to permit the free end of 5 the spindle c to have a vibratory motion in the plane ofthe ends of the block a. The strap z is provided with slots w in opposite sides thereof, one of which is shown in Fig. 2, and in that figure the circular dotted line between the said strap and block indicates the position of the barb when the strap is attached to the latter, as in Fig. 1. To retain said strap, block, and spindle in 'proper place on said bar, a pin, 00, is passed through the said I 5 slots win the strap and through one of said transverse perforations 5 in the barb, the ends of said pin projecting beyond the side of the strap. By the above-described means of connecting strap 2 to said bar the strap is free to be reciprocally rotated on the bar to a certain degree, and thereby the free end of the spindle c is permitted to have a vibratory motion in a horizontal plane to permit its said end to be swung away from its bearing, as shown by the 25 position of one of the spindles in Fig. 1. A bearing for the free end of each spindle c is provided on the front row of the bars I) by the bracket -bearing 0, having a curved recess in its upper side, in which the end of the spindle 3o lies when in operative position, said bracket being secured to the bar by a suitable pin, 7

passing through the latter and the circular sleeve of the bracket. Thus it is seen that the free end of the spindle 0 may be lifted up away from bracket 0 and swung laterally away from the latter, so that a bobbin, e, may be put on or taken off from the spindle, and when the latter has received its bobbin its free end may be lifted, swung around over its bearing on the bracket, and dropped into said bearing, the spindle meanwhile remaining connected with one of bars I).

WVhat I claim as my invention is- In combination, the frame A, a series of vertical spindle-bars arranged in pairs, having 5 their upper and lower ends secured in said frame, and having transverse perforations therethrongh, a series of spindles, c, a connection for each spindle with one of said pair of bars consisting of a block through which the 50 spindle is passed, a strap partially surrounding one of said bars, having slots in its sides and having a pivotal connection with said block, a pin passing through said slots and the bar, and a bracket-bearing for the free end 5 5 of said spindle secured on the second one of said pair of spindle-bars, substantially as set forth.

F. H. PATRICK. 

